Re: [Thinkpad] Re: What is with the Levono bashing?

DON'T FEED THE TROLL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kris Steenhaut" <kris.steenhaut@hccnet.nl>
To: "STeve Andre'" <andres@msu.edu>
Cc: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 3:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Re: What is with the Levono bashing?

>
>
> STeve Andre' schreef:
>
> >On Friday 29 July 2005 20:16, Kris Steenhaut wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Bruce Markowitz schreef:
> >>
> >>
> >>>So far, the new notebooks seem in every way as good as the "IBM" ones,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>You missed the mere fact iNtel internals already are replaced by cheaper
> >>obes from competitors.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>which
> >>>have been made in China for a while anyway.
> >>>OS/2 is a dead, gone, unsupported OS. We really can expect
manufacturers
> >>>to use old hardware just so it can work under OS2. That is not how it
> >>>works. The OS/2 faithful are just going to have to face reality sooner
or
> >>>later.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>You'll have to face Thinkpad is already history. Within a year they
> >>will be laptops just alike any other ordinary laptop. It doesn't suit
> >>your business of course but you'll still have to face it.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I don't see why we have to think that ThinkPads are history. I will
grant
> >you that it *could* happen, but if Lenovo has sense,
> >
> Of course Lenovo has sense. Meaning, they won't make the losses IBM did.
> Meaning, they'll cut everything IBM made losses on. For if Lenovo
> wouldn't do so, the firm would go bankrupt in no time.
>
> > they'll treat what
> >they bought with respect, and we'll still have excellent laptops. I
agree
> >with Bruce; they're made in places like China already, so we know that
> >history.
> >
> >
> >
> I new that already end 2003, as the back of my TP41 says "Maufactured
> for the IBM corporation" and "Made in China".
>
> Where it is made isn't very important (except for IBM's creditors of
> course).
>
> >Frankly, I've had more problems with IBM in the *USA*, with EZServ being
> >nasty about repairs, etc.
> >
> >
> Indeed you won't have any problems of that kind anymore, as service and
> repairs are going to be abolished. Except for IBM nobody does or better
> did "service and repairs" on laptops because it's not costs-effective.
> Don't expect Lenovo to make the same commercial mistakes IBM did.
>
> --
> Groeten uit Gent,
>
> Kris
>
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>
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